Hi, we use a staging script and a prepare script that are used by xrootd/olbd via the directives oss.stagecmd and olb.prep. I noticed that in case of oss.stagecmd the path given as 6th parameter of the line passed to the script is without the localroot. In case of olb.prep it is including the localroot. The documentation says in both case: "path is the absolute path of the file[...]" One also sees this nicely in the olbd log: 070321 17:08:11 19141 Receive from lxb6043.cern.ch: 7@0 prepadd 3b808e80:0445.46015809:948 * 0 rq /alice/sim/2006/pp_minbias/5001/980/root_archive.zip 070321 17:08:11 19141 do_PrepAdd4Real Preparing 3b808e80:0445.46015809:948 * 0 rq /pool/alice/sim/2006/pp_minbias/5001/980/root_archive.zip Between the first and second entry the localroot (in this case /pool) is added. Is this the intended behavior or a bug? In any case, I suggest to add a short comment to the documentation mentioning the localroot. Cheers, Jan Fiete -- ***************************************************************** Jan Fiete Grosse-Oetringhaus CERN Office 12-1-008 1211 Geneva 23 Phone +41 22 767 49 96 Switzerland Mobile +41 76 487 54 59 *****************************************************************